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Let's start with me saying yes I understand if you're caught using third party programs you should be banned, regardless I'm still going to pitch my line of thought on this because I botted momentarily to help farm mesos in reboot a little under a year ago and was banned permanently. Which brings me to my problem with the new policy. How are you going to go from banning accounts permanently to a new system where people blatantly hacking get, one, two, three or four slaps on the wrist before being banned. I understand if this new policy is to try to persuade individuals caught using third party programs to stop and play legitimately but there's people who get whispered by 4 different GM's checking if they're botting to only let them go again and again, and on the off chance they were unlucky as to not be ready to reply or close their game they receive a two week ban. My only suggestion is that like several years back where hundreds or thousands of accounts were given a second chance regardless of what hacks they were using, is to review accounts that were caught botting specifically on the old policy and adjust their punishment based on this new system. And yes this sounds absurd to unban people hacking, this is mainly for my account in reboot to be unbanned. It wouldn't directly impact other players because the account would be off rankings and would be flagged to be checked up on by GM's like the people hacking today. So why not give people who were never given these opportunities their chance, now, since this new policy is in effect(or just my account because ya know, that'd be cool).
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Funny thing is that the slap-on-the-wrist was the old policy and supposedly the new one was gonna be stricter (with permanent removal of rankings etc). It just hasn't been enforced a whole lot lately from the looks of many maps...
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, mate.
There's also not much reason to believe that people that haven't broken the terms of service before won't do so again. All anyone at Nexon would really have to go by is the player's word that they wouldn't do something they've agreed not to do, but that's exactly what you were doing in the first place by playing in such a way that breaks the terms of service and affects other players.
I imagine even if this were ever likely to happen (which I wouldn't think so in a hundred years), it'd take a lot of staff time to find every account that was banned from before the policy changes and manually lift the bans on all of them, and then contact those players to let them know their accounts have been unbanned. This would be a huge waste of staff time and money, as most of the players that have been banned for botting or similar things would have either moved on to another game by now and have no interest in returning, or would be already playing on another account.
I'm going to make one more suggestion here; your best bet is to simply start again. Make a new account, or use a different account, and play legitimately. Have fun with the game and join our community. Whatever you lost by being banned for hacking you could earn back through natural means, and it feels much more rewarding to see your character reach higher levels and complete quests and content naturally than what it does to just cheat and have everything given to you.
To address your point on selling these accounts, yes, that is a possibility but with how accounts get flagged and periodical account checks I'm sure it'll be caught using multiple IP addresses and will be banned for sharing.
As for your point about trust this is a quote from the second chance notice I was talking about regarding the percentage they gathered on those who re-offended, "Out of the thousands of players unbanned in this amnesty, less than 2\% reoffended, while the others were converted into positive players", I won't be linking the source for this as I'm not up to date with what you can and can't redirect to but if you'd like to know for yourself you can just search maplestory and second chance.
And judging by this last post of yours, you're trying to 'request' that you be given that oft-memed second chance that hackers got two or three years ago because "even god forgives". Honestly I'd have to throw my lot in with the others. You hacked, you got banned. End of.
you will have to learn to live with the consequences of your actions, and I know you really are not sorry that you botted, you are just sorry you got caught and have to suffer the consequences. You make it abundantly clear.
but sure, lets get @KThxBaiNao or @OneLetter in here to give you some insight.
- I was banned during January 2016 permanently after caught botting (1st Offense).
- As of this post there's a new ban policy on those caught botting(1 or 2 warning then scaling ban durations)
- Using the past "Second Chance" unban wave back in 2013/2014 I'm establishing precedence
- With this precedence I would like them to review accounts caught botting back in January who were not given ANY warnings an appropriate punishment under their new policy.
I hope this helps you understand what this thread is about.
And honestly? I already understand what this thread is about. You hacked, you got banned, you're pointing to the "even god forgives" unban wave of two years hence and crying "THEY GOT UNBANNED, WHY CAN'T I GET UNBANNED TOO?".
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Nexon was soft on hackers before, which is what allowed you (and others) to conceive this idea that you could hack/ bot and be fine and that if you did get caught "Nexon will give me a second chance and all will be fine"
dont cry to me about "Do you have any idea how long i've been banned?!" I nor anyone else cares about how long you've been banned, the perm ban on your account should stay the way it is. Your ban was not a 10 month ban, it was a Perm ban. Make a new account if you want to play again, give it a few months and you may even get your IGN's back from a name cleansing, shouldn't take you too long to get back to where you were on Reboot. Living with the consequences entails living with the result of your actions, which in this case means living with the Perm ban you received, not begging for your account to be unbanned.